ughhh of course (this isn't really #uspolitics it's more global labor burden of tech but tagging for friends just in case)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Damn. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

#uspolitics <3

I found this a very heartening read (for "given that this horrific and enraging situation is even happening" values of heartening, but it is, so analysis of useful tactics is indeed heartening) #uspolitics

Submissions continue to be open for the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's fiction series. I'm gallivanting around NYC but the in-box isn't on vacation! alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...

We tend to think of things happening in the present as the endpoint of stuff that's been percolating for decades, but it's also the beginning of new things: These are formative events that nobody living through them will forget, and we have no idea what seeds are being sown for the future.

I'm really proud of this little story of a big robot and all the lives around it in and above the soil, and I hope you enjoy it!

Absolutely thrilled to announce that I have a story -- a graphic adaptaiton, in fact! -- live today in the #soilpunk magazine Tractor Beam! The absolutely wonderful art was done (really impressively fast!) by Xiang Yata. You can read "The Valley in Thaw" and all the rest at www.tractorbeam.earth

Snow makes neighbors of us all.

We are pleased to announce that @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social and @epbirdsall.bsky.social have joined our spy thriller anthology, OF INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE, out May 2027! More details here: www.starsandsabers.com/2025/03/13/s...

🧵 On December 30, 1936, thousands of General Motors auto workers courageously sat down on the job inside the plants in Flint, MI, and shut down the most powerful corporation in the world. 📸 @reutherlibrary.bsky.social

At 7pm GMT Today! The Female Man, a Discussion, 30 December: Free, at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh The last posting of the link will be one hour before, so this is the last chance to sign up.

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

Not only did @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social get me an electric fireplace space heater for Christmas/Hanukkah (thus WINNING WINNER HOLIDAYS OMG) but she also got me the present of a chance to assemble a piece of furniture thereby. I'm a simple soul.

that thing where your cat is sleeping in a circle and you put your arms around them and rest your forehad on their soft fur, and they don't move but they start to purr 😭 that's all

Limited time thing! It would help a ton if you would share - if it helps, it's very cute and it's gayyy

course I’m sharing that, it’s likely the only time anybody will ever ask for an emergency theremin

I'm at urgent care (nothing too serious!) and the waiting room's Disney medley is sending me. We've bibbity bobbitied! We've tale as old as timed! We've... done some love song I don't recognize! Now we're not talking about Bruno.

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

Reading "I Leap Over the Wall," a 1950 memoir by Monica Baldwin, who entered a cloistered convent in 1914 and left it like a dazed and blinking time traveler into the wildly different world of 1941, and it is FASCINATING. I'm having a wonderful time so far.

Delighted to announce that the MURDERFISH anthology is now live!! Containing a whole bunch of great stories and cool art, all about murderous fish, including my own story "In Sheets of Seaweed." Ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G59L1WF2/ Paperback: www.amazon.com/Murderfish-A... Audiobook: coming soon!

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.

You know that feeling when you're reading along going "wow, this book is SUCH AN ID VORTEX, it's hilariously over the top, I wonder how it's going to stick this landing???" In this case, readers: it did not 😅

This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to @booktrib.bsky.social for giving it a home! 🏠🔥 booktrib.com/2025/11/18/h...

my beautiful wife, handing me this month's book club book, which happens to be by Ursula Le Guin: "what about DEEZ... possesseds"

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

In other news, an easy fast to anyone dating tomorrow, and if you're observing Yom Kippur with or without fasting, may it be meaningful ❤️

I'm not someone who's usually much affected by the deaths of famous people I don't know, but the news today of Jane Goodall's #death hit hard. Dying at 91 of natural causes after a long life well and energetically lived is pretty much all one can ask, but still.

I don't object to this new feature existing as I'm sure filtering out unknown languages improves the experience for a lot of people, but I loathe that it was turned on for me by default.

CAN'T WAIT

I hate vulture capitalism and I hate everything about this but fyi, sewing friends

Quit doomscrolling and come watch Crunchyroll get their ass handed to them in the comments of this innocuous-seeming post! It's a good time for everyone!

it was a genuinely fascinating double header! both extremely fun but VERY different takes on the music industry, lol

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

Every award ceremony should have this.

Congratulations to all of the #HugoAward finalists and winners!!

Congrats again to all the Hugo nominees, and HUGE CONGRATS to all the Hugo winners!! ...And extra huge congrats to Emily Tesh and my beautiful wife Rebecca Fraimow for HUGO-WINNING BEST FANCAST podcast Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones!!!

Courtesy of catsitter friend, please behold Mina when she sneaks up behind you on the bed and judges you for not playing with the string toy already

#uspolitics The direct line to the HHS secretary's office is 202-690-7000, as mentioned in a reply this; I just called and left a polite but emphatic voicemail about RFK Jr's horrific decision about mRNA vaccine research funding. Let's give 'em hell about this.

I was complaining to/with friends about how I'd like a number-go-up kind of challenge to get me to walk more but I don't want my data auto-synced to a corporation about it! I just want a step counter! Not to be a health tracking surveillance big data point!

LOOK AT HER! THIS IS THE VISION!!! the bubble skirt and big faux-innocent eyes .... thank you so much @sqbr.bsky.social, I'm in love with this

Really enjoyed this perspective!

It's comin'... Details here: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

omg I'M STOKED

I have one (1) go-to digital preservation joke but staying funny means making it lots of times in lots of locations--

I never thought to see something like this in my lifetime, what a profound joy